Saturday, September 16, 2017

Gobsmacked

From an article of a freelance writer, She just won't go away.

"I was just gobsmacked, wiped out."

former Democratic Presidential nominee Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Ms. Clinton is out pitching her new book, 'What Happened'
- her vision of the reason for her dramatic and unexpected loss to
President Donald Trump. It is the latest in a series of planned and
scripted events designed to blame everyone but herself for her stunning
loss. - according to Slate reporter Daniel Politi.

The former candidate said she was gobsmacked by her loss to Trump. 'I
went into a frenzy of closet cleaning and long walks in the woods,
playing with my dogs, and as I write - yoga, alternate nostril
breathing, which I highly recommend, tryin' to calm myself down. And,
you know, my share of Chardonnay. It was a very hard transition. I
really struggled, I couldn't feel. I couldn't think. I was just
gobsmacked, wiped out.'

And she was scripted
and rehearsed for that response to CBS' Jane Pauley, a long time friend
and admirer of Ms. Clinton and thus a safe and compliant interviewer.
Scripted and rehearsed right down the the use of the term, gobsmacked.
Which is a a term not common in Ms. Clinton's lexicon but one finding
increased use among Ivy League elites including speechwriters for Ms.
Clinton. Gobsmacked may be a clever phrase but her use of it reinforces
for all that she is less than genuine.

Greg Jarret of Foxnews
has accumulated a list of twenty-six and/or events to which Ms.
Clinton has assigned blame for her loss - none of them include herself.
The list does include the traditional Democratic bugaboos - racism,
misogyny, sexism, as well as the current themes - the Russians, former
FBI director James Comey, Mr. Trump, and on and on. The only two things
missing from the list appear to be former President Barack Obama and the
Muslims.

Republicans have provided their own lists. Most of these lists center
around Ms. Clinton's corruption, (Whitewater, futures trading, the
private email accounts and server used for State Department business, the
missing 30,000 emails, the Clinton Foundation Pay to Play allegations,
lying, stonewalling, Benghazi, etc) Some note her lack of
accomplishments despite the heady positions she has held. And still some
others refer to a list of campaign mistakes centering on where she did
or did not spend her time and campaign funds.

Yes,
Ms. Clinton has accepted nominal responsibility for her defeat. An
acceptance that is then followed by the enumeration of all those people
and the factors she actually blames. In an address to the Code
Conference in California in May, Ms. Clinton stated - "I take responsibility for every decision I made, but that's not why I lost."

She then went on to list media bias, slanted coverage about her
emails, and Russia as being among the real reasons for her loss. In this
and other 'admissions' Ms. Clinton clearly accepts, 'positional
responsibility' while rejecting personal responsibility. She
acknowledges responsibility simply because things happened while she was
the candidate, but rejects personal responsibility that she was the
cause of any of those things.

But all of these
miss the mark. Ms. Clinton is easily the least authentic person to ever
reach national prominence. In the last twenty years there has not been a
public moment for Ms. Clinton that was not tested, scripted,
choreographed and rehearsed. Not just what she says, but her movements,
her facial expressions and even her regional dialect and slang. But the
American people, despite her disdain for Middle America, are perceptive. A
classic moment for Ms. Clinton occurred during the primary season in a
restaurant in Iowa where she stood off to one side of the crowd that
gathered, ignoring them one and all until the lights came on and she
donned her smile, her hearty laugh, and 'locked-in' gaze with each
person to whom she spoke. And when the camera lights went off, Ms.
Clinton was one again detached and remote.

The
last authentic moment for Ms. Clinton was the fit of rage she disgorged
on election eve. Alone with her family and senior campaign staff, Ms.
Clinton awaited the inevitable confirmation of her inevitable election
to be the next President of the United States.
When she lost
Florida and North Carolina and her 'firewall' states, (Michigan,
Wisconsin, Iowa, Ohio and Pennsylvania} began to crumble her anticipated
elation gave way to rage. She cursed, threw objects, assaulted John
Podesta and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, railed about the
unfairness of it all, and cursed any and all who failed to deliver her
to victory. It was genuine emotion - a particularly ugly emotion, but
genuine nonetheless.

What made it even worse for
Ms. Clinton is that because of a collaborative relationship with the
mainstream press she got away with this scripted persona. Only those in
the media predisposed to play 'softball' with her (even to the point of
sharing the questions to be asked before hand) were permitted
interviews. In live appearances should someone deviate from the norm of
adulation, Ms. Clinton donned a grimaced smile, provided a flip answer
and walked away from the microphones. (Remember, Ms. Clinton's first
response about her use of a private email account and the destruction of
emails - they were about yoga classes and her daughter's wedding - and
her quick exit from the microphones when more difficult questions were
asked.

But the American public was never fooled.
We have all encountered phonies in our lives and it generally takes less
than a millisecond to recognize them. And our reaction to them is
pretty common - we don't trust them, we try to avoid them, and we never
willingly invite them.

Ms Clinton is not alone as a well-rehearsed politician but she is so
much so one that she has become a caricature. She earned the defeat she
suffered.
And she has earned the infamy of her moniker, 'Crooked
Hillary', forever.

Say what you might about President Trump. Love him of hate him. In the end most breathe a sigh of relief, 'At least he's not Hillary.'

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